An aspiring second-grade teacher whose leg had to be amputated after she was run down by an allegedly drunken driver is being forced to get a new education – learning how to walk again.

“I started crying and was, like ‘No, no!’ ” gutsy Adriana Melnichenko, 22, recalled when a doctor at Bellevue Hospital first told her that her right leg would have to come off just above the knee.

On May 22, an allegedly drunken Donna Dashosh backed a Jaguar into Melnichenko as she was waiting for a bus near the Sheepshead Bay subway station on East 15th Street in Brooklyn.

“I saw a white car coming right at me. Then I blacked out,” said Melnichenko, who was flung through the doorway leading into the subway sta tion and pinned underneath the Jag.

“I woke up, and I was in the train station.”

Witnesses said others lifted the white 2000 Jaguar off Melnichenko and tried to get the driver out of the car.

But Dashosh – who had a still unidentified passenger with her -drove off, charging through three red lights before dumping the car a few blocks away, authorities said.

Dashosh, 45, eventually turned herself in to police and was later caught with a crack pipe in her hands while sitting in a holding cell, according to court documents.

She will be in court Wednesday, when she is expected to be arraigned on an eight-count indictment charging her with felony assault, leaving the scene of accident with injury, and driving while intoxicated, court records show. Her lawyer, Paul Bergrin, could not be reached for comment.

Melnichenko – who was set to begin classes this fall at Hofstra University for her master’s degree in elementary education – had to undergo five additional surgeries on her amputated right leg and another to have metal plates and screws placed in her left elbow.

The accident also left her with fluid in her lungs, broken ribs and five fractures in her pelvis – not to mention medical bills that have already added up to more than $100,000.

Her lawyer, Ken Fink, who immediately filed a civil suit against Dashosh, estimates that his client’s final medical costs could exceed $1 million.

Out of the hospital for just over a month, the Ukrainian immigrant joked bravely about her disability.

“I’ll be, like, ‘Can you get this for me? I only have one leg,’ ” she said with a laugh.

But she did confess that she was still not ready to go out in public “because I don’t want people staring at me.”

Last week, Melnichenko got fitted for the first of the three prosthetic legs she will need – one for everyday use, another for exercise and a third that can be exposed to water.

“It’s a little weird,” she said. “I have to think about every step I take.”

The $100,000 prosthesis – which has a microchip in the knee designed to adjust to her body weight and movements – doesn’t look like much more than a metal rod now, but by December, it will be replete with synthetic skin, veins and a foot.

“I don’t think I’ll be fully comfortable until I get the leg covered,” she said before sheepishly admitting that she’s looking forward to getting a pedicure: “I’m a girl. I care about the way things look.”